Elliott & Guerra (2024)
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Linda Elliott and Juan Carlos Guerra: Hawaiʻi Wildlife Center
Hawai‘i Wildlife Center (HWC): Hawaiian archipelago seabird and shorebird rehabilitation patients treated at HWC March 1, 2023 to February 29, 2024 consisted of 988 seabirds (19 species) and 15 shorebirds (2 species).
- Seabird species are listed in order of largest number cared for to lowest:
- Wedge-tailed Shearwater (Ardenna pacifica; ʻUaʻu kani) – 798
- The majority of these shearwaters were downed fledglings due to light pollution or impact with structures
- White Tern (Gygis alba; Manu o Kū) – 92
- Most of the terns were orphaned chicks that were raised and soft-released
- Bulwer’s Petrel (Bulweria bulwerii; ʻOu) – 17
- Majority were downed fledglings with short stays in care
- Hawaiian Petrel (Pterodroma sandwichensis; ʻUaʻu) – 17
- Brown Booby (Sula leucogaster plotus; ʻĀ) – 11
- Leachʻs Storm-Petrel (Oceanodroma leucorhoa leucorhoa) – 10
- Sooty Tern (Sterna fuscata; ʻEwa ʻewa) – 6
- Red-footed Booby (Sula sula; ʻĀ) – 6
- Sooty Shearwater (Ardenna grisea) – 6
- White-tailed Tropicbird (Phaethon lepturus; Koaʻe kea) – 5
- Brown Noddy (Anous stolidus; Noio kōhā) – 4
- Laysan Albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis; Mōlī) – 4
- Masked Booby (Sula dactylatra; ʻĀ) – 2
- Great Frigatebird (Frigata minor palerstoni; ʻIwa) – 2
- Red-tailed Tropicbird (Phaeithon rubricauda; Koaʻe ʻula) – 2
- Nazca Booby (Sula granti; ʻĀ) – 2
- Christmas Shearwater (Puffinus nativitatus; ʻAoʻū) – 2
- Bullerʻs Shearwater (Puffinus bulleri) – 1
- Glaucous-winged Gull (Larus glaucescens; ʻOpaʻipaʻi) – 1
- Wedge-tailed Shearwater (Ardenna pacifica; ʻUaʻu kani) – 798
- Shorebirds:
- Pacific Golden Plover (Pluvialis fulva; Kōlea) – 14
- Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres; ʻAkekeke) – 1